Massachusetts Personal Injury Library
How to Get Your Kid to Wear a Bicycle Helmet (Part A)
I cannot imagine a person today who does not know that bicycle helmets prevent injuries.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
- 88% of accident related brain injuries can be prevented by wearing a helmet.
- 65% of the face injury cases can be prevented with bicycle helmets.
- Yet only one in four children ages 4 to 15 wear helmets, and among teens the rate is almost zero.
- Nearly 140,000 young people end up in emergency rooms each year with head injuries resulting from bicycle accidents.
Bicycle Accident Injury Claims
Bicycle accident injury claims work very much the same as other claims.
Unfortunately, you do not have control over the carelessness or negligence of others, and you may at some point need to file such a claim.
A serious child accident such as a head injury or brain injury can devastate and completely change your child’s life as well as your family’s lives. If your child has been injured in Massachusetts you should contact an experienced Boston child injury lawyer to determine liability.
The State of Massachusetts has a statute of limitations that may prohibit you from filing a lawsuit if too much time has passed. So, do not wait to speak to a child injury attorney at the Kiley Law Group for guidance on your Boston child injury case.
Bicycle Injury Case Studies
Getting your kids to wear helmets can be difficult.
There are steps, however, to help your children protect themselves while cycling.
I would like to share with you tips from a couple of sources. From the CDC, here is a series of case examples that urge parents to insist on helmets and encourage children to wear them. The examples also give ideas for how parents can get their children to wear helmets and how children can stand up to their friends who think their helmets are “geeky.”
First is an example for your teens about how their lives can be changed in an instant. Remind them that the chances for brain injury are reduced by 88 percent when they wear a helmet.
- A teenager riding a bicycle without a helmet is struck by a car and suffers a serious head injury. He endures months of rehabilitation, with bad headaches, slurred speech and facial scars. He loses confidence in himself, becoming increasingly isolated socially.
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